For much too long, I wanted to write about how I completely overhauled our multi-room audio setup at home about a year ago. …
While communicating with the CCC office, I was informed that they couldn’t send me GPG encrypted mails because of the error “GPGME: Ambiguous name”. Of course there is more than one key if you search for my mail address (I had other keys in the past), but they also quoted my correct key ID. …
Subtle
I just stumbled across this great coding error of mine and thought I could share it while waiting for the corrected program to finish its run. …
Something that I should have done waaaay earlier: I finally collected some of the configuration files that I would like to have on every computer (and that I mostly only stole from someone else myself) into a dotfile repository for me to keep in sync and everybody else to copy and use ad libitum. …
Sometimes I wonder “Why on earth didn’t I think of this before?”. Today was such a day, when I thought: Why not get notified automatically when long running commands in a terminal finish? Actually, there’s a mechanism in the window manager for highlighting windows needing attention. Why shouldn’t a terminal prompt after a long running command be such a situation? …